METAPSYCHOSIS

Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art

Attention!

…and interested readers…

Metapsychosis is a literary project of transdisciplinary spirit, hereby inviting artists, writers, scholars, mystics, and consciousness explorers to participate in a co-creative experiment and collaborative publishing venture grounded in the experience of transmission between minds.

Call it Distributed Intelligence. Network Consciousness. The Noosphere...or Depthosphere. A planetary ecosystem of thought. Mutational in meaning, we intend Metapsychosis to be a vehicle for exploring, attuning, amplifying, intensifying, and multiplying our powers of intellectual inquiry and creative transmission within this incipient cultural sphere.

Inspired by the comingling network of movements loosely titled “visionary culture”—and dialed in to multiple currents of metatheory, literary and science fiction, critical theory, pop culture, consciousness and religious studies, and evolutionary activism—we seek to engage the transpersonal and the spiritual through artistic experimentation and practice.

Building on a history of experimental publishing that has, traditionally, blended disciplines and genres—such as the zine BoingBoing, Mondo 2000, Gnosis Magazine, OMNI, Beams and Struts, and Reality Sandwich—we seek to create a meeting of minds in a collaborative act of culture-creation.

Metapsychosis aims to express the emergent complexity of planetary culture through the medium of literature and the arts, spiritual inquiry, and cultural engagement. We intend to reflect a multitude of diverse voices, perspectives, and articulations of our intimate present—and planetary future.

Metapsychosis | Transmission Between Minds

The word “meta” is associated today with “big-picture” thinking, or having to do with overarching and transcendental matters. We refer instead to the word’s etymological roots, which have more to do with the preposition “in the midst of,” or “together with,” but also “behind” or “after.” We believe meta thinking is the kind of complex thinking—and being, and enacting—indicative of our increasingly complex and interconnected lifeworld.

Meta also denotes something that has been altered, changed.

Similarly, “psychosis” has its roots in the word psyche, or soul, and the in the original Greek, it denoted a “giving of life,” “animation,” and even a “principle of life.”

Our journal, Metapsychosis, anticipates future transformations latent in our present moment, articulates the movements of psyche—behind, after, and in the midst of—as it looks to the future of a radically integrating planetary culture.

We encourage interdisciplinary writing. When scholarly, it should be in the spirit of the public intellectual (via Ralph Waldo Emerson, Umberto Eco and Susan Sontag). It should possess something of a “negative capability” (via John Keats), or an “antifragility” (Nassim Taleb). Most of all, writers should have the capacity not only to tolerate but to thrive on diverse points of view and modes of expression.

Metapsychosis is seeking submissions in creative fiction or nonfiction, personal and critical essays, poetry and short stories, comics, film and music, performance media, film and book reviews, interviews, biographies and opinion pieces. Presently we are limiting our submissions to these genres:

Intrigued writers, editors, and artists are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. We’re eager to hear from you.

To publish with us, first consider joining us on our community platform, Infinite Conversations, and sharing your submission ideas there. This is a great way for us to get to know you, and for you to get to know our fellow writers and artists.

However, we also accept unsolicited submissions via the form below.

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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative. We are a platform co-op community radically committed to the empowerment of people's visionary potential to reshape the world through creative engagement. We explore critical cultural, intellectual, and social issues, and we embrace weird or edgy perspectives, to generate fresh, creative thinking. You can directly participate in manifesting our collective media platform by becoming a contributing member.

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